Hi, all. Justin here.  I’ll be your Cruise Director for the rest of this week.  As Rick mentioned, please send tips my way.  Critique, as usual, should be sent directly to @elonmusk.

Brad Smith WSJ oped: Candidates with substantial business interests, such as Mr. Trump, will frequently find themselves facing lawsuits—some merited, some not. If such a candidate were to instruct his company’s legal counsel to settle them, the settlement payments… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Republican state Senate candidate Dan Knodl says if his election gives Senate Republicans a two-thirds majority, he would “certainly consider” support launching impeachment proceedings against Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz. Wisconsin Republicans are defending a two-thirds majority… Continue reading

An important corrective to the nonsense coming out of the House “Weaponization” committee.

NYT: “It’s always a big deal when a former president or prime minister is indicted, but in most democracies, it is normal when they’re credibly accused of serious crimes,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard who has… Continue reading

Time: Former President Donald Trump was indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on Thursday for his role in paying alleged hush money to a porn star. The move raised a number of legal questions as Trump vies for the 2024… Continue reading

Please direct any tips and comments to Justin beginning Monday. Glad to have him back!

CNN: Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury, according to two sources familiar with the case – the first time in American history that a current or former… Continue reading

Richard Winger at Smerconish: The spring 2023 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has an article, “How State ‘Sore-Loser’ Laws Make it Impossible for Trump to Run a Successful Third-Party Campaign If He Loses the Republican Primary.”  The authors are four attorneys… Continue reading

NYT: Alarmed over young people increasingly proving to be a force for Democrats at the ballot box, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have been trying to enact new obstacles to voting for college students. In Idaho, Republicans used… Continue reading

AP:  North Carolina’s state elections board on Tuesday removed two local election officials who had refused to certify their county’s 2022 results after officials determined they violated state law. The state board voted unanimously to dismiss Surry County elections secretary… Continue reading

Alan Greenblatt for Governing.

WaPo: Former president Donald Trump opened the first mega-rally of his 2024 campaign by playing a recording of the national anthem sung by inmates charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the 90-minute… Continue reading

NBC News: Top Senate Republicans broke with former President Donald Trump on Monday over his decision to feature video of Jan. 6 rioters at his weekend rally in Texas. Some disagreed with his judgment in playing a video that exalts… Continue reading